Strap-loop and bag-fastening



(No Model.)

0. REINISOH.

STRAP LOOP AND BAG FASTENING.

No. 367,237; Patented July 26, 1887.

Chazfles Reiniseh/ her, Washington. 0. c.

3 same, reference being had to the accompany-- UNITED STAT-Es 'PATENT Q F EQ CHARLES REINISGH, or NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

STRAP-L/OOPJAND BAG-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 367,237, dated July 25, 1887. Application filed Dewmber 1836. Serial No. 222,978. (No mozleh) To aZZavhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES REINIscH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Strap-Loops and Bag-Fastenings; and Ido hereby declare thefollowing to be afull, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make'and use the ing drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of thisinvention is to provide a strong and serviceable bag-fastening having a strap-loop combined therewith in such a manner as to co-operate with said fastening to more securely fasten the bag, and also said fastening is so constructed as to co-operate with said strap-loop to prevent the strap when inserted through saidloop from dropping into and obstructing the mouth of the bag.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which is illustrated the invention, Figure 1 is a plan of the top of a bag, broken in the cenarrow.

ter and indicating the relation of said invention to the bag. Fig. 2 is anelevation of, the combined fastening and loop and a portion of the frame. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the same. Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken through the frame and centrally and transversely through the loop and fastening, on line m, Fig. 1, the frame being open and the cooperative parts shown in their disengaged positions. Fig. 5 is a section taken through line y, Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the Fig.6 is a perspective view of the catchingloop through which the slidingbolt passes. Fig. 7 is a view of the -invention applied to a trunk; and Fig. Sis a sectional view taken through line 2, Fig. 7.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the views.

The device ordinarily used to hold the frames'ections of a bag together consists of a pivoted bifurcated catch, which is open to many objections, the bifurcated arms being liable to spread under the strain to which they are subjected, and thereby lose their holding power;

also, said pivoted catch is very apt to become loose and to turn from its holding position. My improved fastening device is not open to these objections, being so constructed and arranged that a very strong and simple catch is produced.

In the views of the drawings, a indicates a casing having a longitudinal slot, (1', and slots of connected therewith, and is cut away at a to receive the perforated portion 2) of the catching-loop b, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Within the casing, which is secured to the section 0 of the frame, is arranged a sliding and rotating bolt, a, projecting from which is a pin, of, moving in the slots aa, and provided with a finger-piece, a.

In Figs. 2 and 3 the fastening device is shown in its holding position, in which the bolt passes through the perforation in the catching-loop; but when the said device is disengaged from said loop the bolt is drawn away therefrom, leaving the parts free to be separated, as in Fig. 4.

By reference to Fig. 4 the relation of the loop (I to the casing will be seen more clearly, the said loop projecting backward and laterrally from said casing away from the mouth of the bag, so that the buckle end of the strap rests upon the top of the said casing, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 4, and is thereby prevented'from dropping into the mouth of the bag, and causing much annoyance and shutting the same. 1 As indicated on the left of Fig.1, the loop is formed on the casing 66 immediately back of the opening a and catching-loop, so that when the strap is drawn around the bag it passes up through the loop over the top of the opening and the inserted portion b of the catching-loop, and

by thus pressing upon the said parts re-enand an opening, a, to receivea catching-loop,

a strap-loop projecting from said casing back of said opening a, a sliding and rotating bolt moving in said casing across the opening a and provided with a finger-piece projecting through said slots a a ind a catching loop jeeting into the opening a in the casing, said adapted to enter the opening a and to engage loop being secured to the side of the opposite with the sliding bolt, for the purposes set forth. framesections, for the purposes set forth.

2. In a bug-fastening, the eombinatiou,with In testimony that I claim the invention set :5 5 the frame-sections thereof, of a' casing,a, proforth above I have hereunto set my hand this vided with slots a anda therein, and an open- 9th day of December, 1886. ing, a secured to one of said frainesections w i c, a sliding bolt moving within said casing and CHARLES REINISCH' provided with a finger-piece extending up Vitnesses:

:0 through said slots a and a and a catching- FREDK. O. FRAENTZEL,

loop, (Z, having a perforation therein and pro- FREDK. F. CAMPBELL. 

